Caragh Thuring

space in a way maybe that was a way for me to get to that point I don't know I never thought of that but perhaps it was which cultural experience changed the way you see the world

Being around the decline of the docks in Glasgow, in a way, that sort of industrial decline and witnessing that, you know, and the sort of ramifications of that to an ecosystem and how those things have happened over the last few decades in other areas of the country.

I don't know if that's a cultural experience, but it's...

It has and it defines communities and it defines how people move on from that and what's left behind.

It defines architecture.

It defines music.

It defines so many things that those things have huge effect on all sorts of structures of our society.

And maybe there's something about that that resonates in many different ways.

Well, they are all those things.

I mean, it's the same I was talking about the planes earlier, the intelligence that goes into building these things and constructing them for their function.

And also, at the moment, we live in a society where everything, you know, you visit towns and they were once this.

So you're like a sort of post-industrial tourist in a sense, and you become a sort of capitalist tourist in this post-industrial environment.

And you see these

architectures that had a function.

And a lot of towns don't have functions anymore.

I mean, that's why I like the city of London.

I mean, even that function's dying.

But up until quite recently, there was an industry there that really functioned and an ecosystem around it, which you don't get in most places anymore.

And the docks were a representation of that sort of very narrow ecosystem between the hinterland and what became, you know, like those window ledges, a strip where a lot was going on in a small space.

And I'm fascinated where, you know, something can create a whole ecosystem, really, a function.